Apparatus for repairing shingled roofs.



PATENTED AUG. 16, 1904.

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APPARATUS FOR REPAIRING SHINGLED RooPs.

'APPLICATIQN FILBD,JAN.28.1904. Y

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UNITED STATES Patented August 16, 1904.

PATENT @FFICE.

LEROY s. BOULTER, or BOSTON,-MASSACHUSETTS.

APPARATUS FOR REPAIRING. SHINGLED ROOFS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 768,009, dated August16, 1904.

I Application filed January 28, 1904:- Serial No. 190,967. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LLEROY S.BOULTER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts,have inventedan Improvement in Apparatus for Repairing Shingled Roofs,of which the following description, in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, is a specification,like letters on the drawings representinglike parts.

This invention has for its obj tion of an apparatus by which to guidenails that they may be driven into a shingleat a point Where it isoverlapped by another shingle, the apparatus being especially devisedfor repairing shingled roofs after the nails have rusted OE and theshingles have begun to get loose or become detached.

Figure 1 shows part of a shingled roof with my repairing-tool inposition for operation.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged section in the line 00,.

In the drawings let A, B, C, and D represent rows of overlappingshingles attached to usual roofboards E by shingle-nails in usualmanner, the nails holding each row of shingles being overlapped by thelower' ends of the next higher row of shingles. Suppose one of theshingles has become loose and has slipped partially out of place orbecome detached, which isa common occurrence as nails rust and cease tohold the shingles in place. As now practiced after inserting the shinglethat has become detached or another one in position in the roof theshingle is nailed in place by driving a nail through the overlapping rowof shingles into the upper end of the shingle inserted in place belowit, and also frequently a shingle-nail is driven through the lower endof the inserted shingle into a shingle of the course below. In eitherevent the head of the nail is exposed, andsoon by the action of moistureand the sun the nail rusts and leaves a nail-hole through which watermay pass through the roof-boards and into the house. I

Every nail driven into a shingled roof as it is being made has its headoverlapped by a shingle, and with my apparatus every nail ect theproducdriven as to be covered by ashingle of ahigher row.

Let it be supposed that the shingle a is one that has been inserted inthe row of shingles marked A to repair the roof and that it is to benailed in place. To do this, I crowd the wedge-shaped edge g of myrepairer Gr under the outer end of the row of shingles B and lift thesame from the row of shingles A. I insert the guide under the row Buntil the mouths of the inclined nail tubes or passages b arrivesubstantially at the end of the overlapping row of shingles B. Thisdone, I drop a shingle-nail into one or more of the nail- -holes, andthe nail drops with its point against the shingle a in which thenail isto be driven. I then place a nail-driving tool d in the inclined holeagainst the head of the nail, and with a hammer striking said tool Idrive the nail obliquely into and through said shingle and into theroof-boards E. This done, I withdraw the nail-guide, and the row ofshingles B immediately settle down into proper overlapping relation tothe row Abelow, and the nail holding the shingle a just inserted'in therow A has its head covered by a shingle of the row B. In this way everynew nail driven into an oldroof may be driven into the new shingle at apoint where it is overlapped by an old shingle, and every nail soinserted is protected by a shingle, as in new Work.

My repairer G comprises a head tapered in cross-sectionand provided witha series of inclined nail-tubes to receive and hold the nails in obliqueposition to the face of the shingle. This head may have a handle G, andthe head may be driven with greater or less force underneath theoverlapping row of shingles and to any desired distance. ,The head shownis of wood, for sake of making the repairer light in weight, and it iscovered with metal secured thereto by nails, screws, or the like.

The repairer may have any desired number of tubes or nail-holes.

Having described my invention, what I h, bent about the body part of thehead anddriven to repair a shingled roof may be so claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, ls-

1. Apparatus for repairing shingled root's comprising a Wedge-blockhaving an inclined nail-guide to receive and sustain a nail to be drivenobliquely into a shingle.

2. Apparatus for repairing shingled roofs comprising a Wedge-shapedblock having an inclined nail-guide adapted to be driven betWeen one andthe next row of overlapping shingles, said guide supporting in a lineoblique to the face of the shingle the nails to be driven.

3. Apparatus for repairing shingled roofs comprising a head having aplurality of inclined nail-guides to present nails obliquely to the faceof the shingle into which the nails are to be driven.

4. A shingled-roof repairer, con'iprising a Wooden block havingnail-guides, and a metal covering to present an edge to be forced undera shingle that a nail may be sustained thereby and be driven obliquelyinto the shingle on Which the repairer rests at a point under anoverlapping shingle.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

LEROY S. BOULTER. Witnesses:

GEo. W. GREGORY, EDITH M. STODDARD.

